Articles tagged “south africa”

Cape Town has a unique set of challenges, but it's thinking smart about the assets it has in order to grab the share of visitors it thinks it deserves.

With so many startups focusing on specific niches of the travel market, we will continue to see more acquisitions of small companies by small companies as competition consolidates.

Many African countries are ripe for tourism innovation; however, it will take on-the-ground product development in addition to smart marketing campaign to shift travelers' perceptions and drive bookings.

Commentary on local discontent has nearly overpowered talk about the games and what they signify. Like any major event, protests will occur with insignificant impacts on tourists and the games.

Encourage your audience to revel in summer fun and dare them to broaden their cultural horizons.

It was respectful of SAAV to pull back from the promotion, but we hope it's a pause rather than a hard stop: The trip looks to be rather inspiring.

Old news reels intermixed with gorgeous images of local landscape and people, an open and honest conversation about socioeconomics and politics, and a plate full of food -- these are the ingredients to one of this season's best episodes yet.

It can be argued that Africa is the next Asia, but the more difficult question is whether it wants to be. A booming tourism economy brings international dollars and job growth at the risk of environmental and cultural degradation.

Johannesburg will eventually need to give its badger a human assistant to reply to visitors’ questions for the account to remain relevant and effective in the long term.

Sometimes travel companies, including airlines, have to make hard choices, and FastJet sees longer-haul flights across Africa as its first priority. The plan is to get to domestic South Africa flights at a later juncture.